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Doctor Who: Flux, “The Halloween Apocalypse” Review

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Down-market Chewbacca and disco Skeletor? Chibnall gives us the trick rather than the treat for Halloween. The Doctor (Jodie Whitaker) returns in a special Halloween episode called “The Halloween Apocalypse,” a title which ironically covers all the bases—both derivative and bland while being an accurate description on multiple levels. Personally, I’d prefer the term “disaster”

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Russell T. Davies Returning to Doctor Who May Not Necessarily Be a Good Thing

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In recent weeks, Doctor Who fans have taken to dancing in the streets while celebrating the news that Russell T. Davies will be returning to the showrunner position for their beloved program. My first reaction, however, was… well, let’s just say, not so positive. Initially, I thought it was because my head was quickly filled

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The Aliens of When Morpheus Overslept, Part 1 — The Ch’k li’ak

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Humans were very surprised when they discovered that a sophisticated alien race had been hiding out in the region of Vega for so many centuries prior to their discovery in 2301, because, by then, many probes had been sent in that direction, each revealing uninhabitable worlds. The earliest efforts to explore the star system had

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WHEN MORPHEUS OVERSLEPT is now available!

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After a slight delay, publication day, February 15th, is complete. We’ll just say that publication “day” ran for 36 hours. Apparently, paperback books on Amazon KDP require a “special” and more expensive ISBN number. The alternative was to use a free Amazon KDP ISBN but that would have meant it could have only been published

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The Science of When Morpheus Overslept (Update)

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I had a great chat with Dr. Justin Ball of the Swiss Plasma Center at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) last weekend. He provided some helpful updates to my speculative science in the previous “The Science of When Morpheus Overslept” installments. The takeaways from our talk were: 1. There are two types of gravitons:

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“Bardolian Superluminal Drive” — The Science of When Morpheus Overslept, Part 3

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So, you want to travel faster than light? Prepare yourself for a wild ride! In this final blog on the science of When Morpheus Overslept, I will describe the method of superluminal travel called Bardolian Superluminal Drive. But first, a little history… Graviton Drive (described in Part 2) naturally made scientists think about the logical

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“The Evolution of Graviton Drive” — The Science of When Morpheus Overslept, Part 2

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In Part 2 of this series on the technology of When Morpheus Overslept, I will describe the way Graviton Drive was developed during the late 21st and early 22nd centuries, and this is indeed the meat of this topic since its use drives not only the spaceship in which the main characters travel but also

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“Speculative Fiction and Plausibility” — The Science of When Morpheus Overslept, Part 1

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Not very much of my debut novel, When Morpheus Overslept, involves heavy use of hard science fiction. Though I spent a great deal of time—almost as much as writing the first draft—developing the technology that drove my world, very little of it actually came out in the finished novel, just as it should be. Nevertheless,

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